A Ticat win next weekend coupled with an Edmonton loss at home to the boys in blue and we're officially in the playoffs.
It will eliminate Edmonton from crossing over into the Ticats place. The same scenario obviously applies to the Spies out west, due to the fact that there is no tie-breaker. In the event of matching records the team crossing over MUST have a better record than the 3rd place team.
As for our chance to host a home game?
Next weekends game, I believe, has no bearing on this outcome and regardless of what happens between us and the Green Turds, and the Spies and Allwets. If we lose and Winnipeg wins we're one game back and vice versa, therefore whoever wins the final game of the season will either take a 2 game lead for 2nd place, or match records at 9-9 and because they won the final game hold the 2-1 head-to-head tiebreaker.
Crash - JerkFaceLoser corrected your second scenario. The only way your first scenario would NOT be true is if EDM and BC then played to an overtime tie on the final weekend, while HAM lost in WPG
According to the crossover standings, on CFL.ca, as it stands now, Edmonton has the cross over over Winnipeg and Hamilton is number 2 in the east, despite the fact that they all have the same record. So the post above that says Edmonton must have a better record than the third place team in the east to crossover seems to be mistaken. I know the rules for crossover have been mentioned a few times on these boards, in a variety of ways, but see the CFL crossover standings for, I assume, the official word.
"If the fourth-place team in division A has more points, not tied, than the third-place team in division B, the fourth-place team will crossover to division B, replace the third place team in division A, and compete against the second-place team of that division."
I think they haven't bothered properly sorting the crossover standings. It's probably just sorted by points and then team name. As sad as that is.
Want to see the TiCats win both remaining games and finish at 9 and 9 with home playoff game !!! Backing in to playoffs with losing record would be ok i guess :oops:
it doesn't really matter what happens next week with either us or wpg, whoever wins in the last game of the season will host the playoff game. but a win is important to avoid the west cross over
I'm tired of all these posts saying we don't need to win next week. We absolutely do need to win next week, because good teams win games consistently. We need these next two wins to go into the playoffs with momentum. We absolutely need to win this week to avoid a cross over team. We absolutely need to win, period.
Chris, I think you have indirectly made quite a serious statement here – The Tiger-Cats have won 1 in row, have lost 4 of their last, 5 of their last 7, and 7 of their last 10 games.
That’s not what I meant. Whichever team wins the tie breaker would get into the West division and the other would crossover to the East division. As follows:
EDM beats TOR = EDM has 16 pts
BC loses to CGY = BC has 16 pts
EDM and BC tie = they both have 17 pts
Therefore, if HAM only has 16 pts, then either BC or EDM crosses over and the other gets into the playoffs in the west. This is a very unlikely scenario, but man, will we be crying foul if this happens.